John Fitzgerald Kennedy

And finally, I am here because I know we share a deep-seated belief in free collective bargaining, and in the growth and development of free and responsible unions - and unlike our opponents, we do not believe in this only on Labor Day.

I take my case to you because I am confident that the American people are not going to tolerate pockets of poverty and chronic unemployment in this land, the waste of idle men and women who are ready, willing, and able to work, or the…

This is a great State, Michigan, but it can be a greater State.

The law says that you can only vote once on election day, but if you will go out and register one person between now and the time of election in November, then you can vote twice.

I am concerned about reports that the NATO base in Athens has been fueling Russian planes en route to the Congo which have been used for purposes hostile to the efforts of the United Nations.

Give me your mandate.

And next January we will have those votes.

I do not consider a politician's chief duty to consider how he can gain popularity at the moment.

Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups.

I take our case to you because I am confident that the American people want an enduring peace in which human dignity, truth, and justice under law are secured for all men everywhere.

A Gallup poll taken in 10 countries a few months ago asked the people of those countries who they thought would be first in 1970, militarily and scientifically, the Russians or the United States.

The Presidency of the United States carries heavy responsibilities, especially in the so grave times of international tension.

Yours has been a pragmatic movement basing itself on achievement and progress rather than on some abstract economic and political theory.

But the problem of automation is a national problem - and we must begin to think about it on a national scale.

This is a time for strong leaders - leaders who are not afraid of New Frontiers - leaders who are not afraid of the facts - leaders who can turn our dreams into reality.

The man who opposes a decent increase in the minimum wage is not likely to be more generous toward a badly underpaid schoolteacher.

I welcome the support of the working men and women of this country.

I admire the President of the United States as a man, but I do not believe that we can continue the same kind of leadership in the future.

I would appreciate your forwarding a response to me tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, Wash.

For the labor movement is people.

I take my case to you because I know you agree with me that racial discrimination must be eliminated everywhere in our society; in jobs, in housing, in voting, in lunch counters, and in schools.

I am here to ask for a mandate - a mandate to achieve the promises of that stirring and historic document the 1960 Democratic platform.

May I offer my congratulations to the members of organized labor on this 1960 Labor Day.

I take our case to you because I am confident that you are willing to do whatever has to be done to make us first in the world militarily, and thus first in the fight for peace.

I am concerned about what we do about the defense of Alaska.